Across the River, My Heart, My Memory
I didn’t choose to be born, my consciousness squeezed into meat, but since it happened, I might as well get as much use of it as I could.
I didn’t choose to be born, my consciousness squeezed into meat, but since it happened, I might as well get as much use of it as I could.
Your journey to Hell begins on a ferry. You clutch your ticket and line up in the stinging rain, waiting for your chance to board.
Nothing’s an exact science. It never has been.
a story of yearning, pride, and those who are left behind, by Alice Towey
The magician died before he could put me back together again and my health insurance wouldn’t cover “acts of god” (their words).
I was thinking about how not all women bear children, and some of us make people in other ways.
She was looking at my paper. I was sure of it. But every time I turned toward her, she ducked. I was certain Mr. K would see me looking her…
Faced with the unthinkable, we hoard, grow suspicious, act on fear; we also reinvent, build community, and create new conditions for surviving.
in the dark only his teeth are visible